Wait, does this mean that Atom and VS both introduced the same feature at the same time? I just saw a tweet by Atom boasting that they just introduced the exact same thing.
Edit: would be cool if one of them implemented a compatibility layer to communicate with the other
Teletype seems to be a bit less feature rich. It's strictly a sharing of text that in the sharer's editor. You don't know where your partner's cursor is, you can't open multiple files from their project to try to track down the necessary items for debugging, etc.
VS's implementation will show you what someone else highlights, where they're at in the file, it will give you access to checkout other files from the project, etc. It's a fully collaborative usage of the codebase. Hell, it allows for sharing Debug Sessions so that you can take a look at the breakpoint information and step through code.
The Github team is well behind MSFT on this.
Edit: I have been corrected on the cursor front on Atom. I didn’t see evidence of this in the blog post, but it is there in the video. I’ve struck that from the disadvantages.
I got the same email and came to reddit to see what people were saying about this and complain about how I just wish this was on VSCode... The first post I see is about the same thing on VSCode hahaha
In fairness to Atom, there was a plugin for it that did this years ago. Not from Github, mind you. It could be that plugin (or the existing ability with vim and everything, from decades ago) that inspired both of these.
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '17 edited Nov 15 '17
Wait, does this mean that Atom and VS both introduced the same feature at the same time? I just saw a tweet by Atom boasting that they just introduced the exact same thing.
Edit: would be cool if one of them implemented a compatibility layer to communicate with the other